{"id":2463,"date":"2014-02-18T02:33:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T02:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/?p=2463"},"modified":"2014-03-23T21:42:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T21:42:45","slug":"fly-away-george-djuric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/fly-away-george-djuric\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly Away by George Djuric"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fly Away<\/h1>\n

by George Djuric<\/p>\n

This flight attendant is getting nervous, she rushes our last goodbyes. \u2018We patiently wait for your malfunctioning engine to be replaced with a hopefully good one for three and some hours, can\u2019t you wait a bloody minute!\u2019 Obviously she can’t, having a dear procedure to follow so she doesn\u2019t have to think while doing her job mindlessly all day long day after day year after year, but she slaves for Yugoslav Air Transport, which gives her slave-in-charge powers high above the slaves like us with no charge whatsoever. We are the last group refusing to surrender to her rules and this simple math drives her bananas, still fairly expensive in Belgrade\u2019s stores due to a galloping inflation of soon-to be-war-but-we-have-no-idea-about-it market prices jacked up by the mafioso in charge of banana commodities on the black market, mafioso officially certified by one of Milo\u0161evi\u0107\u2019s cronies in charge of the bribe department slash receivables, since these are governmental black holes which by definition don’t allow any light slash payables to come out.<\/p>\n

As she has no intention of shutting up, I walk straight to her face, make a broad fake smile, and whisper in her earring-free ear: \u2018Listen, sugar, all I need to do is make a phone call to Mile Zrelec (than CEO of YAT) and start shouting at him, which he doesn\u2019t appreciate at all but he listens when I shout since my father gets him his freakin\u2019 job of dealing with you idiots on a daily basis, which makes me feel sorry for that innocent man but not sorry for your sorry ass when he starts shouting at you rightfully and with passion of a frustrated man whose wife\u2019s cheating on him in the broad daylight with that Arkan\u2019s bodyguard Sava Mouflon \u2013 my regular customer from the glory days of muscling bullies and scumbags like him, but now Sava carries around a Glock 17 and we both pretend not to know each other \u2013 whom he can\u2019t touch and definitely is incapable of beating up, and even if hypothetically he could, he\u2019d get a bullet through his forehead covering a brain too smart for its own good; so leave the cuckold alone by leaving me and my company alone (I\u2019m sure she mistakes this one for some grand corporation, not a group of people; after all they don’t pay her for her brains, rather for the lack of it), so you can comfortably go home once your shift expires, to your sleazy lover who’s pimping on the side while taking all your YAT-made money for his \u2018investments\u2019 \u2013 and quite honestly, sugar, you have no brains to even comprehend its origin from the Medieval Latin invest\u012bre, so shut the fuck up and let me say my goodbyes. Or do you want me to make the phone call? It’s your call either way, ha-ha!\u2019 Like all of us, I could be vicious on occasion; by incitement only.<\/p>\n

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George Djuric flew through rally racing, street fighting, philosophy, and anti-psychiatry as if they weren\u2019t there. In the aftermath, all that was left was writing. He published a critically acclaimed collection of short stories, a book read like the gospel by his Yugoslav peers, The Metaphysical Stories.
\nDjuric is infatuated with the fictional alchemy that is thick as amber and capable of indelibly inscribing on the face of the 21st century literature. He lives in the desert near Palm Springs, CA, USA.<\/p>\n

His stories were published in Hobart (Print), Serving House: a Journal of Literary Arts (April and October 2013), FictionWeek Literary Review, Inwood Indiana (Print), Extract(s) (Print), Xavier Review Press, Fresh Literary Magazine\u2019s Printed Anthology, Los Angeles Review, Grey Sparrow Journal, Independent Ink Magazine, The Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, The Fat City Review, In Other Words: Merida Literary Magazine (Mexico), Busk Journal, TheNewerYork\u2019s Electric Encyclopedia of Experimental Literature, BareBack Magazine, Anastomoo (Tasmania), Commonline Journal, Gloom Cupboard, Extracts, BRICKrhetoric, Danse Macabre, Euphony, South Jersey Underground, The Intentional and Mad Hatter\u2019s Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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